MIAMI — Gabriel Diallo of Montreal survived a mid-match “hiccup” to defeat Yosuke Watanuki of Japan in a Miami Open singles qualifying match on Monday.
The 23-year-old Diallo, seeded sixth in qualifying on the Masters-level tennis match, defeated the 26-year-old Watanuki 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-3 in just below two hours to advance within the ATP 1000 occasion that begins first-round motion on Wednesday and runs till March 30.
Each gamers completed with 10 aces and three double faults. Watanuki had 32 unforced errors in comparison with the Canadian’s 24.
The largest distinction within the match was Diallo was a lot better on second serve, getting factors on 71 per cent of his serves, whereas Watanuki solely managed to earn factors 41 per cent of the time.
Diallo saved one break, whereas Watanuki solely saved certainly one of 4 breaks.
Earlier, Alexis Galarneau of Laval, Que., and Liam Draxl of Newmarket, Ont., misplaced their matches.
Galarneau surrendered a one-set lead after being defeated decisively within the second and third units in a 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 loss to Russia’s Pavel Kotov.
The Russian broke Galarneau within the second and fourth video games of the third set earlier than serving to like to clinch the match.
Fourth seed Christopher O’Connell of Australia scored a vital break within the twelfth sport to take the primary set in opposition to Draxl earlier than giving up simply six factors within the second set in a 7-5, 6-0 victory.
